This document provides tips and strategies for content marketing on a small budget. It discusses analyzing audiences and competitors, developing a content framework, brainstorming ideas, producing content cost-effectively, and outreach tactics. Key points include using upcoming trends to generate ideas; curating existing content into listicles, mindmaps and infographics; hiring freelancers for research and design; and pitching journalists via email and phone to gain links and shares. The overall message is that high-quality, engaging content can help boost SEO and awareness even with limited resources.
Working in a digital role and not feeling confident with code? Then this beginners guide is perfect for you.
We take a look at the most popular use cases and occasions where you are likely to face or interact with code, and teach you basics in HTML, CSS & Javascript knowledge that will enable you to complete those tasks.
You will learn the followings:
-HTML & CSS Basics for Editing & Styling Content
- Understanding & Working with a Web-Pages Source Code (Using Inspect Element)
- How to Use EMBED Codes to Display Content from Social Media Platforms & Third-Party Sites (YouTube Videos, Tweets)
- Understanding & Working with 'Tracking Tags' (Google Analytics, Retargeting Pixels via Facebook, Twitter)
- Useful Resources for Ongoing Learning
How To Increase Your Organic Traffic with MarkupKaizen
Learn 5 different ways you can increase your traffic from earned media channels markup. This includes:
The shift in search engines using personalised data and reducing organic results
The latest structured data trends
How to use markup, plugins and code that you can use to increase your earned traffic & CTR from Organic & Social Channels
Using Paid Social & Native Ads to Amplify Reach (SMX London 2015)Kaizen
Paid social & native advertising platforms such as Taboola, Outbrain, Stumbleupon, Twitter and Facebook are powerful tools to earn additional traffic, shares and coverage beyond the paid click. And by taking a scientific approach to your content promotion, such as A/B testing headlines, crafting strong calls to actions for shares and embeds and designing your content correctly will significantly increase performance.
The Future Of Technical SEO Isn't Your WebsiteKaizen
Google in the future will reduce traffic to ‘traditional’ websites as the mobile revolution continues. Learn how you can leverage this exciting new world of Technical SEO via App Indexing, Deep Linking, Structured Data and how to build your own API.
How to Use Native Advertising to Earn Big LinksKaizen
Presented at Search Marketing Day in Warsaw, Poland in June 2014 on how you can use various Native Advertising platforms to help earn links as part of your content marketing strategy.
Search London - The technical factors that every small or local business shou...StrategiQ Marketing
The simplified deck from my presentation at Search London on 10th May 2016. This presentation was a preview from my larger talk that's happening at Ungagged London in June 2016.
Working in a digital role and not feeling confident with code? Then this beginners guide is perfect for you.
We take a look at the most popular use cases and occasions where you are likely to face or interact with code, and teach you basics in HTML, CSS & Javascript knowledge that will enable you to complete those tasks.
You will learn the followings:
-HTML & CSS Basics for Editing & Styling Content
- Understanding & Working with a Web-Pages Source Code (Using Inspect Element)
- How to Use EMBED Codes to Display Content from Social Media Platforms & Third-Party Sites (YouTube Videos, Tweets)
- Understanding & Working with 'Tracking Tags' (Google Analytics, Retargeting Pixels via Facebook, Twitter)
- Useful Resources for Ongoing Learning
How To Increase Your Organic Traffic with MarkupKaizen
Learn 5 different ways you can increase your traffic from earned media channels markup. This includes:
The shift in search engines using personalised data and reducing organic results
The latest structured data trends
How to use markup, plugins and code that you can use to increase your earned traffic & CTR from Organic & Social Channels
Using Paid Social & Native Ads to Amplify Reach (SMX London 2015)Kaizen
Paid social & native advertising platforms such as Taboola, Outbrain, Stumbleupon, Twitter and Facebook are powerful tools to earn additional traffic, shares and coverage beyond the paid click. And by taking a scientific approach to your content promotion, such as A/B testing headlines, crafting strong calls to actions for shares and embeds and designing your content correctly will significantly increase performance.
The Future Of Technical SEO Isn't Your WebsiteKaizen
Google in the future will reduce traffic to ‘traditional’ websites as the mobile revolution continues. Learn how you can leverage this exciting new world of Technical SEO via App Indexing, Deep Linking, Structured Data and how to build your own API.
How to Use Native Advertising to Earn Big LinksKaizen
Presented at Search Marketing Day in Warsaw, Poland in June 2014 on how you can use various Native Advertising platforms to help earn links as part of your content marketing strategy.
Search London - The technical factors that every small or local business shou...StrategiQ Marketing
The simplified deck from my presentation at Search London on 10th May 2016. This presentation was a preview from my larger talk that's happening at Ungagged London in June 2016.
Run successful SEO Campaigns on a small budget.
How to convince your clients to move-away from tired, old fashioned SEO techniques and take the plunge into Creative Content. Creative Content doesn’t have to be expensive, Pete has used tactics such as tactics like Content Curation, News-Jacking & Buzzfeed-style list campaigns that cost less than £100 to make but still won coverage on major sites. Learn how to generate ideas, develop content and outreach it on a small budget. This live webinar will specifically examine:
- How to create content on a low budget
- How to find relevant content topics
- How to run brainstorms that generate 100+ ideas in 30 minutes
- How to find and use freelancer writers & designers to create content
- How to pitch to bloggers & journalists
- Useful tools to improve your link building strategy
Be the first to hear Pete's exclusive tips and get a chance to ask him your questions online!
Guest expert
Pete Campbell is the Director of Kaizen.
Create - Day 1 - 11:55 - "The Big Search Opportunity You Don’t Even Realise Y...PerformanceIN
Search and social are making a rapid shift towards using personalised data and structured mark-up to serve content, leaving the world of third-party, organic results behind.
As a consequence, some brands are lagging behind and failing to leverage the whole new world of traffic-earning opportunities that exist.
Pete's presentation runs through the latest structured data trends, with lessons on using mark-up, plug-ins and code to increase earnt traffic and click-through rates from from search and social - two of the fastest-growing marketing channels around.
SERPs to Markup: How to Increase Your Earned TrafficKaizen
As Search Engines & Social Networks continually shift towards using personalised data and reduce organic results, this presentation runs through the latest structured data trends and how you can use markup, plugins and code that you can use to increase your earnt traffic & CTR from Organic & Social Channels.
SearchLove London | Ade Lewis 'Becoming a Digital Super-Hero'Distilled
Whilst there are often big differences between working freelance, in-house or as part of an agency, we all face a common set of challenges: how to form lasting relationships with clients, how to learn from our successes, and how to handle things when they go wrong. Ade has actionable tips, tools and takeaways to help us all become digital superheroes.
Site Speed for Google's Mobile First Index - SMX London 2017Kaizen
Speed performance is one of the strongest factors in the mobile-first index. In this presentation I share unique, first-party data from my in-depth study on how the UK's 700 biggest online retailers rank in terms of mobile site speed, and what you can learn from their successes and failures.
You'll learn how to improve site speed by using technologies such as HTTP/2 and tactics that unlock speed improvements on larger sites.
SEO and What You Need to Know to Plan for 2017Marketing Mojo
What do you need to do to plan for 2017? Janet Driscoll Miller, Marketing Mojo president & CEO, covers the things you need to know about SEO before you create your marketing plan.
Presentation for Central Virginia American Marketing Association (CVAMA)
How to Effectively Scale and Manage Your Brand’s Link Building ActivityKaizen
From our November webinar with Head of Creative, Sarah Fleming. Sarah’s presentation explored:
- How to run successful link building campaigns in all industries, including finance, insurance, fashion, travel and more
- Building SEO authority and trust across your brand’s target topic entities whilst remaining relevant to the news agenda
- How to measure the effectiveness of your link building activity against key targets and SEO goals
Ungagged 2015 Las Vegas 17 SEO, Conversion & Monetization TemplatesRoland Frasier
This is my presentation from Ungagged 2015 live event in Las Vegas. It provides 17 proven templates that we used to add millions of dollars in revenue to our businesses in 2015.
Basic, down to earth, non-technical search engine optimization tips that even a non-techno-dweeb can master. No-nonsense, common sense SEO best practices.
BERTology @ SEOkomm 2019 - Kai Spriestersbach - eology GmbHSEARCH ONE
Das größte Google Update seit 5 Jahren kommt. Was du jetzt wissen musst! Der Vortrag BERTology von der SEOkomm 2019 von Kai Spriestersbach, eology GmbH.
Wir begeben uns für diesen Vortrag in die Welt der Computerlinguistik auf Englisch: Natural Language Processing. Oder auch Natural Language Understanding.
Also mal langsam der Reihe nach…
BERT ist ein technologisch gesehen wegweisendes Modell zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache. BERT kommt vom Google AI Team aus dem Jahre 2018
und hat die NLP-Welt im Sturm erobert!
BERT ist beispielsweise so gut im Beantworten von Fragen,
dass es das Squad 2 Leaderboard anführt.
Das ist quasi die Bundesligatabelle der NLP-Algorithmen.
Squad ist das Stanford Question Answering Dataset.
This is an SEO guide for designers who want to learn about making it easier for websites or blogs to be found by search engines. I'll explain the common mistakes made by designers and developers. Then I’ll provide some basic tips that you should be practicing to optimize your site for search engines
635 Brainwriting for Content Marketing Ideas Generation by @staceycavStacey MacNaught
The 635 brainwriting method is a powerful method (devised in the 1960s by Professor Bernd Rohrbach) of generating ideas. I'm a fan of using it for generating first stage ideas for content marketing campaigns and projects.
Here's a brief introduction to the 635 brainwriting method.
Run successful SEO Campaigns on a small budget.
How to convince your clients to move-away from tired, old fashioned SEO techniques and take the plunge into Creative Content. Creative Content doesn’t have to be expensive, Pete has used tactics such as tactics like Content Curation, News-Jacking & Buzzfeed-style list campaigns that cost less than £100 to make but still won coverage on major sites. Learn how to generate ideas, develop content and outreach it on a small budget. This live webinar will specifically examine:
- How to create content on a low budget
- How to find relevant content topics
- How to run brainstorms that generate 100+ ideas in 30 minutes
- How to find and use freelancer writers & designers to create content
- How to pitch to bloggers & journalists
- Useful tools to improve your link building strategy
Be the first to hear Pete's exclusive tips and get a chance to ask him your questions online!
Guest expert
Pete Campbell is the Director of Kaizen.
Create - Day 1 - 11:55 - "The Big Search Opportunity You Don’t Even Realise Y...PerformanceIN
Search and social are making a rapid shift towards using personalised data and structured mark-up to serve content, leaving the world of third-party, organic results behind.
As a consequence, some brands are lagging behind and failing to leverage the whole new world of traffic-earning opportunities that exist.
Pete's presentation runs through the latest structured data trends, with lessons on using mark-up, plug-ins and code to increase earnt traffic and click-through rates from from search and social - two of the fastest-growing marketing channels around.
SERPs to Markup: How to Increase Your Earned TrafficKaizen
As Search Engines & Social Networks continually shift towards using personalised data and reduce organic results, this presentation runs through the latest structured data trends and how you can use markup, plugins and code that you can use to increase your earnt traffic & CTR from Organic & Social Channels.
SearchLove London | Ade Lewis 'Becoming a Digital Super-Hero'Distilled
Whilst there are often big differences between working freelance, in-house or as part of an agency, we all face a common set of challenges: how to form lasting relationships with clients, how to learn from our successes, and how to handle things when they go wrong. Ade has actionable tips, tools and takeaways to help us all become digital superheroes.
Site Speed for Google's Mobile First Index - SMX London 2017Kaizen
Speed performance is one of the strongest factors in the mobile-first index. In this presentation I share unique, first-party data from my in-depth study on how the UK's 700 biggest online retailers rank in terms of mobile site speed, and what you can learn from their successes and failures.
You'll learn how to improve site speed by using technologies such as HTTP/2 and tactics that unlock speed improvements on larger sites.
SEO and What You Need to Know to Plan for 2017Marketing Mojo
What do you need to do to plan for 2017? Janet Driscoll Miller, Marketing Mojo president & CEO, covers the things you need to know about SEO before you create your marketing plan.
Presentation for Central Virginia American Marketing Association (CVAMA)
How to Effectively Scale and Manage Your Brand’s Link Building ActivityKaizen
From our November webinar with Head of Creative, Sarah Fleming. Sarah’s presentation explored:
- How to run successful link building campaigns in all industries, including finance, insurance, fashion, travel and more
- Building SEO authority and trust across your brand’s target topic entities whilst remaining relevant to the news agenda
- How to measure the effectiveness of your link building activity against key targets and SEO goals
Ungagged 2015 Las Vegas 17 SEO, Conversion & Monetization TemplatesRoland Frasier
This is my presentation from Ungagged 2015 live event in Las Vegas. It provides 17 proven templates that we used to add millions of dollars in revenue to our businesses in 2015.
Basic, down to earth, non-technical search engine optimization tips that even a non-techno-dweeb can master. No-nonsense, common sense SEO best practices.
BERTology @ SEOkomm 2019 - Kai Spriestersbach - eology GmbHSEARCH ONE
Das größte Google Update seit 5 Jahren kommt. Was du jetzt wissen musst! Der Vortrag BERTology von der SEOkomm 2019 von Kai Spriestersbach, eology GmbH.
Wir begeben uns für diesen Vortrag in die Welt der Computerlinguistik auf Englisch: Natural Language Processing. Oder auch Natural Language Understanding.
Also mal langsam der Reihe nach…
BERT ist ein technologisch gesehen wegweisendes Modell zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache. BERT kommt vom Google AI Team aus dem Jahre 2018
und hat die NLP-Welt im Sturm erobert!
BERT ist beispielsweise so gut im Beantworten von Fragen,
dass es das Squad 2 Leaderboard anführt.
Das ist quasi die Bundesligatabelle der NLP-Algorithmen.
Squad ist das Stanford Question Answering Dataset.
This is an SEO guide for designers who want to learn about making it easier for websites or blogs to be found by search engines. I'll explain the common mistakes made by designers and developers. Then I’ll provide some basic tips that you should be practicing to optimize your site for search engines
635 Brainwriting for Content Marketing Ideas Generation by @staceycavStacey MacNaught
The 635 brainwriting method is a powerful method (devised in the 1960s by Professor Bernd Rohrbach) of generating ideas. I'm a fan of using it for generating first stage ideas for content marketing campaigns and projects.
Here's a brief introduction to the 635 brainwriting method.
The Next Generation of Content Strategy: A Performance-Driven ModelPaula Ladenburg Land
Successful content strategy aligns editorial strategy with business strategy to deliver effective content and business value. Ongoing auditing of content and metrics creates a closed-loop process to ensure consistent content effectiveness and relevance.
This deck accompanied a Confab Intensive workshop presented on Sept 2, 2015 by Kevin Nichols (@kpnichols) and Paula Land (@content_insight) in which attendees learned how to assess content, create a performance-driven content process, and establish governance mechanisms for ongoing management and optimization.
Actividad 3.4.3 para hacer una base de ideas para iniciar nuestro proyecto.
Parte del curso de "Creatividad e Innovación para emprendedores" del Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires de la Academia BA Emprende, capacitación para emprendedores.
Copyright: Creative Brains @ Work
Plataforma: Acamica.com
Encontramos soluções melhores quando utilizamos a colaboração. O jogo de Desenvolvimento de Ideias é uma técnica de "brainwriting" e tem como objetivo compartilhar ideias, construindo resultados mais efetivos com a participação de todo o grupo.
Content Marketing
Here is my presentation from the ACEF Asian Customer Engagement Awards (25-April-2015). This covers the basics of planning and executing content marketing campaigns online. It gives a working content marketing framework and content strategy, as well as used cases from ICICI Lombard, Koovs.com, Standard Chartered Bank.
Rúbrica de evaluación Actividad P2P - Unidad 1 - MOOC "Aprendizaje Basado en ...INTEF
Matriz de evaluación para la actividad de evaluación entre pares correspondiente a la unidad 1 de la edición 2015 del MOOC de @educaINTEF "Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos".
Cuestionario de valoracion de proyectos de aprendizajeConecta13
Cuestionario de valoración de proyectos de aprendizaje.
Este cuestionario ha sido desarrollado a partir de un modelo previo diseñado por iCOBAE y ha sido pilotado en La Semana de los Proyectos y otras experiencias de formación del profesorado.
Ideas have been the driving force of humanity. From a simple circular wheel carved from rock back in the stone ages to the first airplanes and telephones, innovative ideas have sparked off revolutionary changes in society. Now in this competitive world, ideas have become more important to us than actions. Companies have begun asking designers to generate solutions that meet the needs and desires of the consumer.
As such, there was a need to streamline and increase the efficiency of producing and sharing ideas within teams. This gave birth to several idea generation techniques, which allowed everyone to play a part in the creative process, a role allotted strictly to designers and engineers for the last few years.
Idea generation techniques meant anyone could participate in creating new ideas. It allowed people to share and build up on existing solutions, to foresee future problems, and essentially, to think big in terms of design. It brought different specializations together to create a more diverse think-tank that can tackle problems from several perspectives.
This report is divided into three parts.
First, we shall look into several idea generation techniques, both popular ones and the uncommon ones, question their uses and value by providing examples of products developed using the specific techniques.
Second, we discuss whether idea generation methods and techniques are important in coming up with new ideas? Are they the driving factor in generating ideas?
Lastly, we conclude with our personal view on idea generation techniques, along with stating which methods, if any, would we prefer to use.
Towards the end we aim to achieve a better understand of the creative thinking process as a whole and how to effectively solve all issues, design or otherwise.
Native Advertising: The Secret Weapon of Content Marketing semrush_webinars
Learn how to use and leverage paid social & native advertising platforms such as Taboola, Outbrain, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Twitter & Facebook to earn additional traffic, shares and coverage – beyond the paid click.
By having a scientific approach to your content promotion, such as A/B testing headlines, strong call to actions for shares & embeds, and designing your content right – it will significantly increase its performance.
Advanced tactics on driving engagement through native advertising, alongside best practice and regulation, will be shared.
What a wonderful day to celebrate the eternal sunshine of the spotless SEO mind! If you weren’t at the conference today or missed something, it’s alright, we’ve got your back - here are the key takeaways from the BrightonSEO September 2017 main stage. Check them out!
How to Rank Better in Google: Food Bloggers Canada #FBC2015Casey Markee, MBA
Food blogging is a competitive niche. Learn how to design and optimize your food blog with these best practices on SEO, mobile experience, content, and page speed and give your site the BEST chance of future rankings success!
At Our Kids Media's 2010 Meeting of the Minds, Travis Allison, Jim Huinink, and Agnes Stawicki speak to Toronto and Mississauga-area private and independent schools about the changing world of marketing in education. Topics covered are social media, online optimization, and how to make the most of marketing with Our Kids Media.
Arts Marketing Association North-East Network Meeting: The Evolution of Searc...Marty Hayes
Following my talk about An Integrated Approach to Search Marketing at MuseumNext, I was asked by the AMA (Arts Marketing Association) to present at their Newcastle network meeting on the subject of Search Engine Optimisation.
We covered The Evolution of Search, looking at:
A (brief) history of search
Key algorithm updates and what they mean
for you
What does technical SEO mean?
How to check, audit and improve your
technical SEO
What does on-site SEO mean?
How to audit, research and optimise your onsite
content
How technical & on-site SEO can combine
forces for search supremacy
Advanced Content Creation, SEO & StorytellingCasey Armstrong
Advanced Content Creation, SEO & Storytelling
Here are the slides for the content marketing, SEO, storytelling, and growth hacking events that Patrick Vlaskovits and I hosted with our partners below across Europe in 2016:
- Beta-i (Lisbon)
- Porto Design Factory (Porto)
- Founders (Copenhagen)
- EIT Digital (Helsinki)
- Mosaik (Budapest)
We broke the events into the following 5 sections:
- What really is growth hacking?
- State Of The Industry
- Advanced Content Marketing & Creation
- Advanced SEO
- Storytelling
All of our examples came from personal experiences that we had not written or spoken about prior.
If you have any questions, please contact me (@CaseyA - casey@fullstackmarketer.com) or Patrick (@Pv).
Winning the Online Marketing Game Through Content Optimization 2013MultiWave Media
Discover how Content drives all digital marketing in 2013 and beyond; how to optimize that content for search engines, and beat your competitors at this game!
SEO has an ugly side and a useful side. The useful side is about best practices, great content, and semantic HTML. This presentation was developed for the PMC's Beast Bloggers Camp 2 in Oakland, October 2009.
Killing the giants: how to beat big brands in searchAnton Shulke
Winning organic market share in SERPs dominated by big brands with huge budgets may seem like a fairytale in today's modern organic landscape. However, that need not be the case. In this webinar, Ross Tavendale shows you blow for blow how he took a small business (less than 1m turnover) and grew their organic presence to beat out Tripadvisor's, HomeAway and Holiday Lettings for their core terms.
Our founder & CEO, Pete Reis-Campbell, was the featured keynote speaker at the University of Leicester's recent Career Sucess webinar. Pete discussed how he built Kaizen and the importance of having an entrepreneurial mindset.
Selling yourself the right way... it's easy!Kaizen
Hannah Ajala - Journalist @ BBC
Hannah's talk explores what it takes to be a journalist and what digital PR's need to bear in mind when creating and maintaining relationships with publishers. Including:
Effective branding and networking
What makes an eye-catching story
How to pitch to journalists
How to maintain good relationships with journalists
Understanding the niche, you're pitching to
Why audience takeaways are important
Less brand, more story
Keep it Fresh: tips to take your strategy & client offering one step further ...Kaizen
Marina Plummer - Senior Digital PR Manager @ Kaizen
COVID-19 shook the world of Digital PR, as the words 'static' and 'interactive' became more clunky and a thing of the past, making way for more hybrid and flexible content formats such as data stories and proactive reactive PR as a result.
As an agency, it is CRUCIAL to keep things fresh, not only to keep the clients you have but also to get new ones. As a result, brand focus has become the crux of our pitch process, and moving away from standard slides, starting with a blank canvas has done wonders for client wins and also employee motivation.
During this talk, Marina will discuss how to keep your strategy fresh and wow either a current or potential client to show them that you are ahead of everyone else.
Avoiding Boycotts & Backlashes: how to navigate content marketing for LGBTQ+ ...Kaizen
Lottie Maddison - Influencer Marketing Manager @ Kaizen
When talking to LGBTQ+ audiences, many brands manage to f* it up and appear ignorant at best, tokenistic at worst, or just downright rude.
So, I offer a frank and informative 101 guide on how to communicate with LGBTQ+ audiences.
With more Gen-Z and millennials identifying as anything other than heterosexual than ever, now’s the time to get it right.
Link Building: how to sell the idea to your CMO and manage your agency for re...Kaizen
Kirsten Beacock - Corporate Comms and PR EMEA @ Lastminute.com
Having been in Digital PR for more than a decade, Kirsten will explore her tips on working with agencies to get real results. She’ll cover everything from how to nail the brief to how to sell link building in-house to the CMO and beyond.
Technical SEO for Large eCommerce Websites 💻Kaizen
Our Senior SEO Manager, Serena Pearson gave this talk at brightonSEO Summer 2021. Serena discussed how to audit large websites where you can't crawl everything.
The True SEO Value of Links - No-Follow vs. Follow Link Experiment 🔗Kaizen
Our Head of Creative, Sarah Fleming gave this talk at brightonsSEO Summer 2021. Sarah ran through an experiment we conducted here at Kaizen on nofollow links.
Striking the Perfect Balance Between 'Safe' & 'Risky' Campaigns for Client & ...Kaizen
Our Senior Digital PR Manager, Marina Plummer gave this talk at brightonSEO's Online PR Show. Marina discussed how having a balance of safe & risky campaigns is the best way to drive success.
How to use data storytelling for link buildingKaizen
Learn the 8 key success factors for building links using data storytelling based on an analysis of over 500 data visualisation content pieces I've launched.
Find out how to build a successful data story from scratch. This includes tools that will find data stories worth telling, tactics to make it newsworthy, resources to scale up your data and best practices for using data visualisation.
Originally presented at SEODay.dk in January 2019.
How to Optimise for Voice Search, Shopping & AI (Alexa, Google Home)Kaizen
Apple's Siri, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are further accelerating the trend towards voice search. Marketers and merchants must prepare now for a future in which voice and virtual assistants play a much larger role in content discovery and driving conversions. This session explores how to optimise your content and user experience for a future in which half or more of all queries will be voice–driven.
We’ve made a study of nearly fifty major finance and FinTech companies which have been making use of content marketing, for the purposes of link building or gaining press coverage in order to track the most successful, and the trends which guided their creation. This included 220 pieces of content and over 2750 backlinks created over the past five years, and featured five of Kaizen’s clients, for whom we have produced some of the pieces of content.
Optimising Content For Voice Search & Virtual AssistantsKaizen
In the age of mobile devices and virtual assistants, the future of SEO requires optimizing content for voice search. New devices such as Apple's Siri, Amazon Echo and Google Home are further accelerating the trend toward voice search. Marketers and merchants must prepare now for a future in which voice and virtual assistants play a much larger role in content discovery and conversions. This session explores how to optimise your content and user experience for a future in which half or more of all queries will be voice-driven.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
For too many years marketing and sales have operated in silos...while in some forward thinking companies, the two organizations work together to drive new opportunity development and revenue. This session will explore the lessons learned in that beautiful dance that can occur when marketing and sales work together...to drive new opportunity development, account expansion and customer satisfaction.
No, this is not a conversation about MQLs and SQLs. Instead we will focus on a framework that allows the two organizations to drive company success together.
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
Digital Commerce Lecture for Advanced Digital & Social Media Strategy at UCLA...Valters Lauzums
E-commerce in 2024 is characterized by a dynamic blend of opportunities and significant challenges. Supply chain disruptions and inventory shortages are critical issues, leading to increased shipping delays and rising costs, which impact timely delivery and squeeze profit margins. Efficient logistics management is essential, yet it is often hampered by these external factors. Payment processing, while needing to ensure security and user convenience, grapples with preventing fraud and integrating diverse payment methods, adding another layer of complexity. Furthermore, fulfillment operations require a streamlined approach to handle volume spikes and maintain accuracy in order picking, packing, and shipping, all while meeting customers' heightened expectations for faster delivery times.
Amid these operational challenges, customer data has emerged as an important strategy. By focusing on personalization and enhancing customer experience from historical behavior, businesses can deliver improved website and brand experienced, better product recommendations, optimal promotions, and content to meet individual preferences. Better data analytics can also help in effectively creating marketing campaigns, improving customer retention, and driving product development and inventory management.
Innovative formats such as social commerce and live shopping are beginning to impact the digital commerce landscape, offering new ways to engage with customers and drive sales, and may provide opportunity for brands that have been priced out or seen a downturn with post-pandemic shopping behavior. Social commerce integrates shopping experiences directly into social media platforms, tapping into the massive user bases of these networks to increase reach and engagement. Live shopping, on the other hand, combines entertainment and real-time interaction, providing a dynamic platform for showcasing products and encouraging immediate purchases. These innovations not only enhance customer engagement but also provide valuable data for businesses to refine their strategies and deliver superior shopping experiences.
The e-commerce sector is evolving rapidly, and businesses that effectively manage operational challenges and implement innovative strategies are best positioned for long-term success.
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
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Understanding
AI-Generated Content:
AI-generated content includes text, images, videos, and audio produced by AI without direct human involvement. This technology leverages large datasets to create contextually relevant and coherent material, streamlining content production.
Key Benefits:
Content Creation: Rapidly generate high-quality content for blogs, articles, and social media.
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Research Assistance: Efficiently summarize and research information.
Market Insights:
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Publishing: Automate content creation for faster publication cycles.
Education: Efficiently generate educational materials.
Healthcare: Create accurate content for patients and professionals.
Finance: Produce timely financial content for decision-making.
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Transparency: Disclose AI use to maintain trust.
Bias: Address potential AI biases with diverse datasets.
SEO: Ensure AI content meets SEO standards.
Quality: Maintain high standards to prevent misinformation.
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9. KAIZEN
PETE CAMPBELL
/ KAIZEN
• Founder / Managing Director
• Kaizen is a team Content Marketing
& Technical SEO specialists
• “Rising Star of the Year” (Travolution Awards)
• 6+ Years in Agency & In-House Roles
• Built first website at 11
• Ran several high-traffic video gaming sites
• Proud owner of a Game Boy Colour
11. KAIZEN
THE CONTENT MARKETING DREAM
Audience & Competitor Analysis
Content Calendar
Pitch Cat-Themed Infographic
Production
Signoff
The ‘BIG’ Launch
Blogger & Journalist Outreach
?????
Earns 1 Million Links
12. KAIZEN
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS
Audience & Competitor Analysis
Content Framework / Calendar
Pitch Cat-Themed Infographic
Production
Signoff
The ‘BIG’ Launch
Blogger & Journalist Outreach
?????
Earns 1 Million Links
“Why do we need creative content?”
“How is this relevant to us?”
“How will cat pictures help rankings?”
“Make the logo pop more, needs branding”
“Sandra in accounts wants the text bigger”
“How many links will this get us?”
“That’s the PR agency’s job. No Thanks”
“Can you make it go viral. K thx bye”
“Awesome! Let’s try a Zombie Infographic”
17. KAIZEN
http://www.semrush.com/ - Domain vs Domain Report
CLIENT
CLIENT: “WHY DO WE NEED CREATIVE CONTENT?”
YOUR ANSWER: “BECAUSE YOUR MAIN COMPETITOR
IS KICKING YOUR ASS WITH IT”
20. KAIZEN
4 CURATED CONTENT FORMATS
Listicles
AKA “Buzzfeed”
Mindmaps Flowcharts DIY Infographics
http://ww.piktochart.com
1. Curate the most relevant information about a topic into one
single location.
2. Add your own unique spin e.g. design, opinion, interactivity
3. Do it right and you’ll end up creating something of real
added value
YOUR SOLUTION – CONTENT CURATION
27. KAIZEN
YOUR CONTENT FRAMEWORK
UPCOMING HOOKS (FEB/MARCH 2015)
• Brit Awards
• Pancake Day
• Valentines Day
• Barbie Doll Day
• Chips Day
TARGET PUBLICATIONS (TIER 1)
• Daily Star
• The Express
• Digital Spy
• Gawker
• Sky
• Mashable
• OK! / Hello
TARGET CUSTOMER
• Aged 25-45
• 80% Female
• They also play the lottery, buy scratch cards and enter
social competitions.
• Employed (low end wages), unemployed or stay at home
parents
• Likely to have children
VALUES & EMOTIONS
• Aspirational
• Big dreamers
• Fun & laughter
• Excitement & pure bliss
• Friendship & family
• TOWIE
• Cereal Day
• Britain’s Got Talent
• Easter
29. KAIZEN
1. Who is a typical customer? (LOL HAI, A/S/L?)
2. What do they love / hate about your product?
3. What stops them from buying your product?
4. What emotions do they associate with your product?
5. What magazines & websites do they read?
6. What else are they interested in?
ASK YOUR CLIENT THESE 6 QUESTIONS
35. KAIZEN
3) TRY WORD ASSOCATION FOR TOPICS & THEMES
1. Which 25 sites would you really like a link from?
2. Do your homework on those 25 and cut the list to 10
• Do they actually link to third-party sites?
site:dailymail.co.uk intitle:"Infographic”
37. KAIZEN
5) MAKE A LIST OF YOUR KEY PUBLICATIONS
1. Which 25 sites would you really like a link from?
2. Do your homework on those 25 and cut the list to 10
• Do they actually link to third-party sites?
site:dailymail.co.uk intitle:"Infographic”
• Have they linked to your competitors?
site:dailymail.co.uk intitle:"Infographic” + "Insurance"
• Search your topics
• Make a list of relevant Journalist names
41. KAIZEN
YOUR CONTENT FRAMEWORK
UPCOMING HOOKS (FEB/MARCH 2015)
• Brit Awards
• Pancake Day
• Valentines Day
• Barbie Doll Day
• Chips Day
TARGET PUBLICATIONS (TIER 1)
• Daily Star
• The Express
• Digital Spy
• Gawker
• Sky
• Mashable
• OK! / Hello
TARGET CUSTOMER
• Aged 25-45
• 80% Female
• They also play the lottery, buy scratch cards and enter
social competitions.
• Employed (low end wages), unemployed or stay at home
parents
• Likely to have children
VALUES & EMOTIONS
• Aspirational
• Big dreamers
• Fun & laughter
• Excitement & pure bliss
• Friendship & family
• TOWIE
• Cereal Day
• Britain’s Got Talent
• Easter
43. KAIZEN
CLIENT “HOW IS THIS CONTENT RELEVANT?”
YOUR ANSWER: “BECAUSE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
RELATED TOPICS THAT YOUR CUSTOMERS LOVE”
44. KAIZEN
CLIENT “HOW IS THIS CONTENT RELEVANT?”
YOUR ANSWER: “…AND WE’RE MUCH MORE
LIKELY TO EARN BIG LINKS THIS WAY”
Credit Cards
Technology
“25 Reasons The Apple
Watch Will Suck”
45. KAIZEN
HOW WILL THIS HELP OUR RANKINGS?
YOUR ANSWER: “BIG LINKS = DOMAIN AUTHORITY &
COMBINED WITH AWESOME ON-PAGE/TECH SEO, WE WIN”
46. KAIZEN
TONS OF NON-KEYWORD
RICH ANCHOR TEXT
HOW WILL THIS HELP OUR RANKINGS?
YOUR ANSWER: “BIG LINKS = DOMAIN AUTHORITY &
COMBINED WITH AWESOME ON-PAGE/TECH SEO, WE WIN”
61. KAIZEN
SUPER BRAINWRITING
• You write 3 ideas down each, in 5 minutes as in a
team of 6.
• No talking allowed, you then pass the parcel and
iterate.
• We’ll stop after 3 rounds as we don’t have all day
68. KAIZEN
LET’S VOTE ON OUR IDEAS
• Pass the paper one more time
•
Now, circle 1 the idea that has the most STEPPS
• In turn, now read your out chosen idea
• As a group, vote on your favorite out of the 6
74. KAIZEN
USERS DON’T READ CONTENT (THEY SCAN IT)!
“We found 79 percent of our test
users always scanned any new page
they came across; only 16 percent
read word-by-word.”
- JAKOB NIELSEN
75. KAIZEN
SET YOUR RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
1. HTML5, Responsive Design or Go Home
2. Put the Content on a Seperate Micro-Site
3. Unique Look & Feel, No Corporate Brand
Colours/Typography
4. Below The Fold Client Logo
5. Break Content into Digestible Chunks – Lists,
Sub-Headings, Paragraph Breaks
6. Visualise Every Detail (GIFs, Photos, Data Viz)
76. KAIZEN
USE OPEN GRAPH TAGS TO INCREASE CTR
• Open Graph Tags let you pre-populate text &
rich media on Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn
– OG:Type
– OG:Locale
– OG:Title
– OG:Publisher
– OG:Description
– OG:Image (1200px by 630px ideal for Facebook)
• Twitter Card Tags
– Twitter:card (summary_large_image)
– Twitter:site
– Twitter:domain
– Twitter:creator
– Twitter:title
– Validator: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator/
http://ogp.me/
77. KAIZEN
ALWAYS HAVE AN EMBED CODE
EVEN IF IT’S JUST AN IFRAME OR EMBEDDABLE THUMBNAIL
http://builtvisible.com/embed-code-
generator/
83. KAIZEN
CLIENT: HOLD RIGHT THERE!
• This needs to have our top & bottom navigation
• Our logo needs to be added top-left
• Needs our brand colors
• Our customers don’t use capital letters – get rid
84. KAIZEN
YOUR ANSWERS:
1. Bloggers & Journalists don’t link to Advertising for
free (unless it’s truly amazing e.g. John Lewis Xmas
ads)
2. We’ll earn more coverage this way, and still make
more people love your brand
3. If it’s about your product & services, we’ll house it in
the main site
91. KAIZEN
3) PITCH THE JOURNALIST WITH THIS TEMPLATE
SUBJECT: Soap Awards Story?
Hey Caroline,
Just wanted to run a idea by you,
We’ve just launched a brilliant list of British Soap Stars When
They Were Young featuring all the classics like Peggy Mitchell
and new favorites like Rosie Webster
Link: http://www.twolittlefleas.co.uk/soap-stars/
I think this would go down a storm on The Metro if you’d like to
share it in some form, especially as it’s the ITV Soap Awards
this Sunday.
It’s had over 300 social media mentions to date!
Two Little Fleas is an online bingo community with a passion for
creating cute and quirky apps, lists and tools.
Our stuff has been recently featured in the Radio
Times, HuffPost Comedy & Lifehacker.
Thanks Caroline let me know what you think,
Pete
CASUAL OPEN
THE SELL
THE HOOK
CREDIBILITY
92. KAIZEN
WHAT’S THE HOOK?
1. Seasonal Event or Occasion
2. New Trend
3. Statistics
4. It’s Bigger & Better